Sorry, but that well´s been poisoned for me.

I don´t call his brand of conservatism conservatism. His plan seems to be to first establish himself as a true conservative. Then get elected and return to his big government ideas like the rest of his clan.

A must read. Jeb is exactly right. This is what made America great; this is what can revive the Republican party. Republicans who think these ideas aren´t any good are incredibly out of touch with this country´s electorate.

It´s a matter of trust, not words. GW and his Dad talked the talk "read my lips", then sat at the dinner table and had a few laughs with Barb before stabbing us in the back. They are as elite as any Kennedy and have great contempt for real conservatives. Wake up and tell Jeb to get a job for crying out loud!

Jeb Bush is no conservative, just like his brother and father weren´t, as it turned out. Why would we fall for this a third time? Decent men? Yes, all three. Conservatives? Not a single one in the bunch.

Plus, the MSM is salivating at the thought of a Jeb Bush candidacy. That ought to tell you something.

The snarks against the Bush family were predictable. The same ones who some how have to accuse them of being bad Presidents.
GW was on the ball after 9/11 and was a superb President. Unlike kerry, the elder Bush was a war hero and was a good man. I think Jeb would be a good President, also several others come to mind, including Rick Perry, but the knives are always out from the goofies.

Jeb Bush would be immeasurably better as POTUS than the current occupant. But his ideas still look like big government.
Our Founding Fathers put together an ingenious system of limited, enumerated powers at the center and unlimited, residual powers (even for do gooding) at the state level. This balance has been systematically destroyed by the political Left over the last century.
Restoring it will go a long way in solving what are perceived today as intractable problems requiring more Federal Powers. Whether he (or she) is willing to do this political fire walk will be the true litmus test of a Conservative leader. Right now I don´t see anyone else but Sarah.

I still don´t trust him. Unless he distances himself from the bad policies of his kin, I can´t believe a word he says no matter how good it sounds. The read-my-lips on taxes from Bush Senior, and Junior´s nation-building for ingrates, senior prescription drug expansion, the public-private religious partnerships, expansion of government, failure to privatize social security accounts, TSA nationalization - were bad mistakes that Jeb should be denouncing. He also needs to explain himself on his opposition to offshore drilling in Florida while Castro drills away and a revolution beckons. He now says he´s for drilling but he was against it in florida - does he listen to special interests every time?

If he can´t do this, he´s just LBJ in a guayabana.

Yes, we can thank George W for standing up to the World Wide Left and pulling us out of the ABM Treaty back in 2002. If it weren´t for his action, we on the Left Coast would be at the mercy of Korean nuclear missiles right now. We can also thank GW for standing up to the World Wide Left and not giving up on the Iraq War when we were losing.

That said, George W also gave us vast new entitlement spending. He could also have Vetoed more. His "compassionate conservatism" was a failure. We need a reversal away from big government, not just a Republican version of the same. No to Jeb -- yes to Rand.

This is his opening salvo for throwing his hat in the ring for 2016.
He´s in favor of drilling now, but would not let drilling occur off Florida shores while he was at the helm.
No, No, No! He is not my choice.

Yes, all three are fine and decent people, but Conservatives they are not. NO, NO and No. Never again.

I´m all for a constitutional amendment forbidding any and all Bush´s from holding any elective office in the USA. (snark alert) They are now and always have been a menace.

Question to Bush fantatics-- what was Jeb´s primary accomplishment in Florida? What originated there that has been adopted elsewhere?

ADA NAFTA Homeland Security prescription drug subsidies for seniors, avoiding the immigration discussion for twelve White House years and of course, no new taxes--- what suggests that small government solutions are encrypted in the Bush family DNA.

The road to revival, as it did in 1980, involves a significant right turn away from Kennebunkport.

You can´t have a welfare state and essentially "open borders" and survive as a country, where just about any alien who wishes to move to the USA, and otherwise might become an illegal alien, can go to a US Consulate, pick up a visa, come into the USA, and eventually become eligible for all the benefits and service of the US social welfare system.

Because of the current world population of almost 6 billion poor people, most of who would like to come to the USA "to live a better life", common sense and human nature tells you that a massive number of aliens would move to the USA and take extreme advantage of the social welfare safety net that the USA now has in place, if the USA embraced the cheap labor based libertarian immigration policy that this Jeb Bush is now proposing.